Remembering KARL WALLINGER (1957 - 2024) - Frontman of World Party
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I have come to the conclusion that the easiest way to to recognize a hotel desk worker in this town is to simply say “Hockey Parents” and listen for the anguished cries…
re: #2 Patricia Kayden
Wth?!!
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Dumb decision, but I’d like to think it was a poor choice made by someone tasked with cutting the broadcast length down and not due to some closet Putinite.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Dumb decision, but I’d like to think it was a poor choice made by someone tasked with cutting the broadcast length down and not due to some closet Putinite.
Yeah, documentaries and foreign films often get neglected at the awards.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Dumb decision, but I’d like to think it was a poor choice made by someone tasked with cutting the broadcast length down and not due to some closet Putinite.
They created a 90 minute version of the show. 20 Days was not cut because of politics. It was cut for time. Cutting a 3 hour show down to 90 will do that.
But it did grant Ukraine TV the ability to show the full live version which it did.
“Instead of the shortened version, Suspilne [Ukrinae TV] decided to show the Ukrainian viewers the full version that was broadcast live on the night of March 11.”
So the people in Ukraine got to see the award given. And I bet a lot of other minor awards were cut. The question is did Ryan Gosling’s mucical performance get cut?
Robert Hur using his former position at DOJ to falsely accuse Biden of forgetting the date of his beloved son’s death to suggest that he’s mentally incompetent is one of the most twisted betrayals of basic humanity I’ve ever heard. Don’t underestimate how skin-crawlingly creepy what Hur did was.
re: #8 silverdolphin
They created a 90 minute version of the show. 20 Days was not cut because of politics. It was cut for time. Cutting a 3 hour show down to 90 will do that.
But it did grant Ukraine TV the ability to show the full live version which it did.
So the people in Ukraine got to see the award given. And I bet a lot of other minor awards were cut. The question is did Ryan Gosling’s mucical performance get cut?
Many of our generation were surprised that “OMG Ryan Gosling can sing!!” Having apparently forgotten that he was in the Mickey Mouse Club in the same class as Brittany Spears, Justin Timberlake. Christina Aguilera….
Rather amusing story about a planned megadevelopment in Vancouver (the Canuck one) on indigenous Squamish Nation land. The Nation can do what it wants as far as zoning and planning goes, and are building about as high a density development as it can.
The local NIMBYs are in a state about it, of course, and a bunch of lily-white middle class busybodies are telling the indigenous people they’re indigenizing all wrong and where are all the teepees and cavorting with deer and wise old brownish people with feathers on their heads.
Oh yeah, link.
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
re: #7 JC1
Yeah, documentaries and foreign films often get neglected at the awards.
because what does all that foreign stuff have to do with Americans and how we live?
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
Talk about a Hail Mary play
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
OTOH, it’s good for the NFL if it gets him out of the League… < whistles innocently >
Finally had a few free minutes here at work, so pulled the card from my camera and fired up the copy of my app on USB. Hadn’t gotten anything today for my personal “Picture a day” challenge and so while on my way to work tonight I was passing by my late paternal uncle’s neighborhood bar. I pulled over, maxed out the ISO the old M 240 can do, opened up the 50/1.5 all the way and still had to tweak the RAW file a bit. In the end, I was pleased with how much I got out of what was, essentially, a safety shot ;)
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
Maybe his injury was worse than reported.
re: #19 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Maybe his injury was worse than reported.
It goes back to the whole anti-vax bullshit.
Landed in Birbville.
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TL:DR A Boeing whistleblower was found dead over the weekend, a week after John Oliver ran an extremely well-done examination of Boeing’s collapse wrt safety. I date the beginning to the horrible decision to pass over Alan Mulally, an engineer who had worked at Boeing since 1969, for a President/CEO with no real engineering experience. The one behind the 737Max.
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“A former Boeing employee who raised quality-control and safety concerns over the company’s aircraft production was found dead this week, according to authorities in South Carolina.”
It looks like an apparent suicide. He died about a week after this episode of Last Week Tonight dealnig with Boeing. I am sure hoping that he was not despondent about being unable to have stopped the continuing problems at Boeing. Watch the program:
Most of us in the Seattle-area have seen the gradual degradation of Boeing as the McDonnell-Douglas guys took over. Oliver does a great job discussing what happened.
One anecdote he does not mention - Alan Mulally was the head of Boeing Commercial Aircraft until 2006. An engineer, he had been involved in the design of every single plane Boeing comercializedthe last 40 years - the Boeing 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, and Boeing 777 projects. He ran Boeing Commercial from 1998-2006.
When he was the head of the 777 project, with over 10,000 working on it, he would bring ALL of them together 3 times a year to examine and vet the progress, discuss problems and find solution! He left because he had been passed over for CEO/President of Boeing for James McNerney, who had no real engineering experience. He started life as a brand manager at Proctor and Gamble and is the main guy behind the 737 MAX.
So Boeing changed from having someone with direct engineering experience making planes at the company to having someone from outside the company, whose background was more in sales and services. So Mulally left,
And went to Ford in 2006. He was, at the time ,the only CEO of any US automotive company who had direct engineering experience of assembly line manufacturing. He suspended the dividends so the money could go back into the company. He restructured it to be more efficient. Ford had their first profits in 2 years, He also redid the debt load, reorganized it around a $25 billion mortgage of Ford assets. This allowed him to make real changes and to have a big cash cushion.
Which meant that in the2008-2010 automotive crisis, when all the other car makers went bankrupt, Ford was the only automotive company that did not need government help. When it did need some help later, he said that if Ford got the loans, he would drop his salary to $1. When criticized for using corporate jets and generating a lot of greenhouse gases, he sold off ALL but one of the company’s jets and traveled from Detroit to Washington in a Ford hybrid next time he went to Washington. He stayed at Ford until he retired in 2014.
And is an example of what a great steward a good CEO can be when they understand the industry from the inside.
I often wonder what Boeing would be like if he had become CEO. I expect it would be the Boeing we grew up with, not McDonnell lite. Which, sadly , means that several hundred people would likely still be alive.
re: #23 silverdolphin
The collapse began with the McDonnell merger because that brought the virus that had destroyed Douglas previously in the same manner.
re: #18 William Lewis
My pocket camera is an ageing Panasonic LX-7. The Leica (branded) glass goes down to F1.4 which makes it an excellent indoors no-flash camera. It has a Neat Trick built-in, a switchable ND 3 filter that permits long exposures when necessary so I can get motion blur of, say, flowing water even with the big light grasp.
re: #25 Nojay UK
My pocket camera is an ageing Panasonic LX-7. The Leica (branded) glass goes down to F1.4 which makes it an excellent indoors no-flash camera. It has a Neat Trick built-in, a switchable ND 3 filter that permits long exposures when necessary so I can get motion blur of, say, flowing water even with the big light grasp.
The main issue for me with my M 240 is that it dates from 2013 and the sensors age shows at times like that (the banding is rather noticeable). My Nikon D810 is only 2 years newer but does 12800 and is noticeable better in such cases.
Now once I get a Nikon Z (probably a used Z5 since they’re showing up for $650 ~ 800 used on Eprey) this will be far less of a concern given its ISO 102400 performance… 🤯
re: #18 William Lewis
Looks like a roadhouse movie set
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Looks like a roadhouse movie set
Pretty much. A scruffier neighborhood, lots of pool tables, opens early for the folks getting off of 3rd shift. I don’t remember ever going there but I’d bet if I walked in and name dropped Uncle George, I’d probably better not drive myself home … 😉
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
That’s the most NY Jets thing to happen to the Jets in ages.
Rodgers is a lunatic with a singular talent to chuck a football. That’s what RFK Jr thinks is good to be a VP? That shows RFK Jrs spectacular lack of character or judgment, which has already been shown through his antivax stance.
re: #31 lawhawk
That’s the most NY Jets thing to happen to the Jets in ages.
Rodgers is a lunatic with a singular talent to chuck a football. That’s what RFK Jr thinks is good to be a VP? That shows RFK Jrs spectacular lack of character or judgment, which has already been shown through his antivax stance.
It’s not that. As pointed out upthread, Aaron Rodger’s appeal to the RFK Jr. campaign is his staunch anti-vaxx stance. They deserve each other; they’re both insufferable, odious assholes. It’s a shame that sporting leagues don’t place much value on the integrity of a person’s character when it comes to their hiring decisions. (But kneeling while Black, apparently, is of utmost importance.)
It’s Time for Former Trump Officials to Come Out Against Him
If we’re really going to hand over the nuclear codes to this guy, the thinking went, it’s better for serious people to have at least some input—people with experience, good judgment, and a baseline interest in the country’s well-being. Even if that means serving someone manifestly unfit for the job.
Fast-forward eight years: The results are in, and they’re not encouraging. We’ve seen a steady stream of former Trump officials come out, on the record, to talk about the former president’s moral depravity, his incompetence, and his basic inability to faithfully execute the duties of his office
If we want to stop a Trump restoration and the promised MAGA dictatorship, it’s going to require building a coalition of people who understand the stakes. And there are no messengers better equipped to convey the peril of a Trump presidency than those who lived it firsthand, on the inside.
But wait, haven’t they done that already? Mark Milley posed for a front-page spread in the Atlantic. John Kelly gave a statement to CNN. Others have back-channeled their grave misgivings, off the record, to Puck and Politico.
Hard truth: That’s not enough. I talk to Republican primary voters every week in focus groups, and you know what they don’t read? The Atlantic, Puck, and Politico. Fundamentally, the reason they seem unbothered by Trump’s autocratic tendencies is that a lot of them don’t know about them.
re: #32 Nerdy Fish
Oh, I know that Rodgers is a staunch antivaxxer who got into it with Travis Kelce over Kelce shilling for Pfizer and the covid vaccination.
Who again suffered an ACL just 4 plays into the season, and who won the Super Bowl? Yeah, Rodgers was watching from his drug induced sweat lodge, while Kelce was hoisting the Lombardi trophy.
RFK knows Rodgers appeals to the antivax set, but that makes you wonder just who is this supposed to peel voters from. Trump or Biden? Trump’s the antivaxxer who undermined vaccination uptake, while Biden oversaw the largest vaccination campaign in US history and the per capita death rates after vaccinations became available are lowest in those places that did best at vaccinating - blue states, while red states have the highest per capita death rates.
re: #32 Nerdy Fish
One the one hand, we have the Sporting Ideal, which is deeply rooted in what we perceive as American Values: team spirit, fair play, competition and striving for excellence, etc.
Then we have professional sports, which is a multi-billion dollar industry with an image to maintain, part of whose appeal rests on those American Values.
The money will always be the overriding factor in what they will acccept and/or promote.
‘Oh my God!’ MSNBC’s Mika stunned by RNC hiring notorious election denier
Christina Bobb, a former OAN reporter who has spread false claims about the 2020 election, has been hired by the RNC as senior counsel for election integrity, and the “Morning Joe” co-host expressed shock as colleague Willie Geist read the news.
“To your point about the bench of people that is being built for Donald Trump at the Republican National Committee, for example, now completely taken over by Donald Trump in his campaign, now reshaping its leadership with a lawyer who was at the forefront of all the lies about the 2020 election,” Geist said. “Former Trump attorney and One America News Network reporter Christina Bobb has been hired as the RNC’s - ready for this? - senior counsel for election integrity.”
re: #36 Joe Bacon ✅
This makes it clear that the RNC has a plan to so totally disrupt and corrupt the voter tallies that millions of votes have to be disqualified, leaving neither candidate with an EC majority and throwing the election to the House state delegations, where the GOP has a majority.
re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This makes it clear that the RNC has a plan to so totally disrupt and corrupt the voter tallies that millions of votes have to be disqualified, leaving neither candidate with an EC majority and throwing the election to the House state delegations, where the GOP has a majority.
It makes it clear that the party is totally in the pocket for Trump. Now we just have to destroy Trump.
re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“We’re very lucky they’re so fucking stupid”
Holy shit. Ken Buck ain’t leaving quietly. pic.twitter.com/rhDxPONfHC
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) March 12, 2024
Ken Buck absolutely immolates Speaker Johnson, and calls out Johnson and GOP leaders for pushing an unconstitutional impeachment of Biden - because they have precisely no evidence of any high crimes or misdemeanors, and are just trying to MBF one into existence to even the playing field with Biden.
re: #38 Belafon
It makes it clear that the party is totally in the pocket for Trump. Now we just have to destroy Trump.
He still has a lot of rich friends in influential places. They are the people we have to disarm or turn against him.
from downstream
re: #75 ckkatz
You may remember some discussion earlier about the possibility of discharge petitions in the House to force a vote on Foreign Aid.
There are now two discharge petition efforts floating around the House. One by the Democrats and one by the GOP that is less favored by the Democrats.
discharge petitions are a rarity
Why are two more or less real ones floating around?
leadership, as in the lack of
re: #43 Eventual Carrion
5 years ago today, Bunny stuck up in the backyard tree after chasing a squirrel up.
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Is he still there? Do you have to climb up to give him carrots or Purina Bunny Chow or whatever?
re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because what does all that foreign stuff have to do with Americans and how we live?
like MLB “World Series”
re: #46 Dangerman
like MLB “World Series”
And just how many other galaxies are involved in the Miss Universe pageant?
re: #31 lawhawk
That’s the most NY Jets thing to happen to the Jets in ages.
Rodgers is a lunatic with a singular talent to chuck a football. That’s what RFK Jr thinks is good to be a VP? That shows RFK Jrs spectacular lack of character or judgment, which has already been shown through his antivax stance.
he knows he’s not gonna be prez. he knows the whole thing is a stunt. and that mostly no one’s even looking at him.
im thinking its more like how to just get media attention
re: #40 lawhawk
Crocodile tears. Buck has always been a lunatic, especially when Obama was in office. He can pound sand, the miserable cocksucker.
re: #48 Dangerman
he knows he’s not gonna be prez. he knows the whole thing is a stunt. and that mostly no one’s even looking at him.
im thinking its more like how to just get media attention
Again, he is positioning himself for a post-DJT Republican Party. It is coming no later than 2028. Hopefully much, much sooner.
re: #38 Belafon
It makes it clear that the party is totally in the pocket for Trump. Now we just have to destroy Trump.
correct.
it doesnt change anything w/r/t how the election is going to be run or what tfg and his minions would try to do to it
they’re just sitting at different desks now
oh, and job titles are meaningless
Now we’re gonna get the thinkpieces about how Ken Buck is so rad. Excuse me while I puke my guts out.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, he is positioning himself for a post-DJT Republican Party. It is coming no later than 2028. Hopefully much, much sooner.
wont work
everyone’s already got his number. he’s going nowhere.
re: #22 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
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re: #53 Dangerman
wont work
everyone’s already got his number. he’s going nowhere.
He will pick up a small fringe of the fringe of DJT supporters, but yes, I cannot imagine him establishing himself beyond that.
But who knows what is going to happen to the GOP when its Fearless Leader finally loosens his death grip on it.
re: #29 William Lewis
Pretty much. A scruffier neighborhood, lots of pool tables, opens early for the folks getting off of 3rd shift. I don’t remember ever going there but I’d bet if I walked in and name dropped Uncle George, I’d probably better not drive myself home … 😉
We still have one bar in town that caters to the 3rd shift crowd. Opens at 7 am and servers breakfast or dinner. A shot, beer and breakfast place.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He will pick up a small fringe of the fringe of DJT supporters, but yes, I cannot imagine him establishing himself beyond that.
But who knows what is going to happen to the GOP when its Fearless Leader finally loosens his death grip on it.
My advice: popcorn futures
Trump Now Claiming ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Was Used By House Dems in ‘Cognitive Decline’ Gaffe Supercut
Former President Donald Trump has baselessly alleged that House Democrats used “Artificial Intelligence” to create a montage designed to show his lack of mental acuity, adding “‘Can’t do that Joe!!” on social media.
The video in question was presented Tuesday by Rep. Jerry Nadler, who pushed back at Republicans during a hearing by rolling out a supercut of Trump’s gaffes and memory failures to demonstrate he shouldn’t be accusing “anyone of cognitive decline.”
Nadler, the committee’s ranking member, responded by attacking Trump and playing a montage intended to refute Hur’s characterizations about Biden’s memory by demonstrating a greater deficiency in Trump.
re: #52 teleskiguy
Now we’re gonna get the thinkpieces about how Ken Buck is so rad. Excuse me while I puke my guts out.
I feel your pain. My exact reaction to all the Nikki Haley puff pieces.
re: #52 teleskiguy
My response to all the glorification of Ken Buck being done right now is…
Buck You, Ken! Good Riddance.
re: #34 lawhawk
RFK knows Rodgers appeals to the antivax set, but that makes you wonder just who is this supposed to peel voters from. Trump or Biden? Trump’s the antivaxxer who undermined vaccination uptake, while Biden oversaw the largest vaccination campaign in US history and the per capita death rates after vaccinations became available are lowest in those places that did best at vaccinating - blue states, while red states have the highest per capita death rates.
Except that Trump has his ego attached to Operation Warp Speed and the vaccine development process. The dissonance between the vaccine development and his need for the anti-vaxxer vote has shown itself after the SOTU.
re: #45 sagehen
Is he still there? Do you have to climb up to give him carrots or Purina Bunny Chow or whatever?
Nah, I shot her out of it the same day ////
re: #62 Thor Heyerdahl
He wants people to love him for pushing development of a vaccine, but also wants people not to get vaccinated because he keeps pushing dangerous antivax conspiracy crap. He’s trying to get two different sets of GOP nutjobs to support him. Establishment GOPers who want to overlook his crazy by pointing to something he did despite his incompetence and malicious handling of covid, and the nutjob base who votes for Trump because of all the insane things he says and does.
Trump may also be trying for the RFK Jr vote. But he’s not growing the GOP base.
He’s stuck at around 40% of the vote nationally, which still makes him extremely dangerous.
Oh goodie - Trump is saying he’d seek the release of all the hundreds of 1/6 seditious treasonweasels and others who were convicted or took plea deals on seeking to interrupt the certification vote and install Trump in the WH despite losing the election if he wins in November.
He’s that dangerous.
re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Landed in Birbville.
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In what could be the most ridiculous, outrageous, fraudulent, dishonest case of branding ever, Trump has now given himself a nickname: “Honest Don”. pic.twitter.com/VBA4nmeCzH
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 12, 2024
re: #66 jeffreyw
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It took a moment for my brain to properly process that top photo, even though that’s way too big for an afro, and the guy is white.
That’s one way to ensure Biden wins Wisconsin. https://t.co/CJykJ9WGyB
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 13, 2024
“Are you ready to defend democracy?”
Democracy is not a brand. It’s an endless pursuit. My elders knew all about its imperfections and still they fought for my right to fight for it today. I will never take that for granted.
We can do this again, y’all. Let’s go! 🗳️ https://t.co/HK8WO9g3Bn— Renee (@PettyLupone) March 13, 2024
Apparently my tablet knows where I spend most of my time and what Im reading
In today’s Google news
re: #72 Dangerman
Huh!
I tested the prototype last year, had to sign an NDA. I actually have my hands on the final product, I get asked about them every time I take them out.
re: #73 Dangerman
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When you show authoritarians reality, they just spin up more conspiracy theories, like Biden being on Trump’s drugs.
Perks of the job at the ski company. I scored a pair of $849 telemark ski boots that haven’t even been officially released yet.
re: #75 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
When you show authoritarians reality, they just spin up more conspiracy theories, like Biden being on Trump’s drugs.
Half listening to a coworker who is talking about a friend who invested in something, and which tanked at the onset of covid. This friend cried when Biden was elected because she was worried it wouldn’t recover, or at least she would have to wait until after he lost reelection. Now it’s up higher than it was when she first got involved, but it’s only because of things that Biden didn’t do.
re: #13 ericblair
What they (the tribe) were supposed to do, was to take the land and do absolutely nothing with it, “in trust for future gens”. NIMBYs love to do that BANANA thing (Build Absolutely Nothing Around or Near Anywhere). We love doing that in my town. We have an old industrial neighborhood “preserved” in this way.
re: #78 Sherlock Hound
What they (the tribe) were supposed to do, was to take the land and do absolutely nothing with it, “in trust for future gens”. NIMBYs love to do that BANANA thing (Build Absolutely Nothing Around or Near Anywhere). We love doing that in my town. We have an old industrial neighborhood “preserved” in this way.
The tribe was supposed to be happy being poor so that this person wouldn’t have to feel guilty.
Rats wanna get high, too!
The New Orleans Police Department is battling a formidable enemy that has infiltrated its headquarters: an army of rats that has begun feasting on drugs stored in the evidence room. That’s according to NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, who told the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee on Monday that the police department needs to relocate its facilities to a downtown high rise to escape the unbearable conditions. “The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Kirkpatrick was quoted as saying by local media. In addition to their drug binge, she said the rats have left feces on desks, and cockroaches have moved in. “The uncleanliness is off the charts,” she said. Her disturbing testimony about conditions in the 1968 building came after the department spent years lobbying for a new location for its headquarters. On Monday, the City Council approved a motion to authorize a pending 10-year lease agreement that would see the department moved to the upper two floors of 1615 Poydras Tower in the center of the city.
re: #78 Sherlock Hound
What they (the tribe) were supposed to do, was to take the land and do absolutely nothing with it, “in trust for future gens”. NIMBYs love to do that BANANA thing (Build Absolutely Nothing Around or Near Anywhere). We love doing that in my town. We have an old industrial neighborhood “preserved” in this way.
Someone should write a sci-fi novel about Native Americans being the first humans to colonize Mars, tracing it back to this development.
Tik Tok vote in House:
House Approves TikTok Bill, 352-65
The bill would require the video-sharing app TikTok to divest from ByteDance, its China-owned parent company within 180 days of the bill’s enactment or face a U.S. ban.
re: #43 Eventual Carrion
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re: #80 Joe Bacon ✅
Rats wanna get high, too!
The New Orleans Police Department is battling a formidable enemy that has infiltrated its headquarters: an army of rats that has begun feasting on drugs stored in the evidence room. That’s according to NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, who told the City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee on Monday that the police department needs to relocate its facilities to a downtown high rise to escape the unbearable conditions. “The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Kirkpatrick was quoted as saying by local media. In addition to their drug binge, she said the rats have left feces on desks, and cockroaches have moved in. “The uncleanliness is off the charts,” she said. Her disturbing testimony about conditions in the 1968 building came after the department spent years lobbying for a new location for its headquarters. On Monday, the City Council approved a motion to authorize a pending 10-year lease agreement that would see the department moved to the upper two floors of 1615 Poydras Tower in the center of the city.
Eating pot that hasn’t been decarboxylated by heat won’t get you high, even if you’re a rat.
So, looking at past genocides, and came across this:
Bangladesh Genocide
⚠️ CW/TW: Genocide ⚠️
Judge in GA dismisses six of the GA counts against Trump and his fellow seditious treasonweasels, but majority of counts remain.
In a nine-page ruling, McAfee dismissed counts lodged against Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer Charles Eastman, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Ray Smith and Bob Cheeley, claiming that they lacked sufficient detail.
re: #87 lawhawk
Judge in GA dismisses six of the GA counts against Trump and his fellow seditious treasonweasels, but majority of counts remain.
In a nine-page ruling, McAfee dismissed counts lodged against Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer Charles Eastman, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Ray Smith and Bob Cheeley, claiming that they lacked sufficient detail.
Is this guy gonna pull a Cannon on this case?
re: #75 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
When you show authoritarians reality, they just spin up more conspiracy theories, like Biden being on Trump’s drugs.
My guy does therefore everybody has to
re: #84 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Eating pot that hasn’t been decarboxylated by heat won’t get you high, even if you’re a rat.
I think the cops are taking it and blaming it on the rats.
re: #86 Teukka
So, looking at past genocides, and came across this:
Bangladesh Genocide
⚠️ CW/TW: Genocide ⚠️
Can’t blame Teh Juice, therefore
re: #92 Vicious Babushka
Can’t blame Teh Juice, therefore
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Yeah. Irritating. And all I did was to try to find previous known instances of genocide, so you have a way to compare against current claims. Only for it to be called “irrelevant”. And yeah, don’t get me started on what happens when I try to use one of the ICC’s companion docs (“Elements of Crimes”) and do the proper comparisons…
re: #89 Unabogie
Is this guy gonna pull a Cannon on this case?
No. It’s not a bad thing for the courts to check the prosecutors’ work. And it’s important to note that only some of the counts were dismissed, not all (or even a majority); and the court even said that the DA could go back to the grand jury to re-submit the dismissed charges once they had the requisite specificity. In a case this high-profile, it’s probably even more important to make sure all the I’s are crossed and T’s dotted, because not all of Trump’s lawyers are completely incompetent, and the ones who aren’t will no doubt use every loophole they can find to try to weasel out of a trial.
re: #80 Joe Bacon ✅
Rats wanna get high, too!
“The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Kirkpatrick was quoted as saying by local media.
Authorities further confirmed that they have closed the internal investigation into the cause of a large number of phone calls to local Taco Bell stores. “It’s obvious. Now.” said a spokesperson for the Department.
re: #93 Teukka
Yeah. Irritating. And all I did was to try to find previous known instances of genocide, so you have a way to compare against current claims. Only for it to be called “irrelevant”. And yeah, don’t get me started on what happens when I try to use one of the ICC’s companion docs (“Elements of Crimes”) and do the proper comparisons… [Embedded content]
You are not allowed to mention other genocides because that is WHATABOUTISM!!1!111!111 //
No, not even the genocides that are going on right now next door in Syria or Yemen.
re: #96 Vicious Babushka
You are not allowed to mention other genocides because that is WHATABOUTISM!!1!111!111 //
No, not even the genocides that are going on right now next door in Syria or Yemen.
Nah. It’s simply looking at precedents and legislation, and how things compare to both, to determine whether something is genocide or not.
re: #89 Unabogie
No. He’s allowing prosecutors to go back to the grand jury and get more detailed indictments as to specific conduct.
JUST IN: Judge McAfee has thrown out six counts in the Fulton County indictment of Trump and several codefendants. He says the allegations that the defendants tried to get GA officials to violate their oaths were not detailed enough. pic.twitter.com/0ewQ1TeWip
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 13, 2024
re: #99 lawhawk
I’d further note that Trump and the defendants did in fact violate the laws in hundreds of ways - large and small. Prosecutors just need to set that out in the indictment, which means expect superseding indictments to be forthcoming in the next few days/weeks.
re: #100 lawhawk
I’d further note that Trump and the defendants did in fact violate the laws in hundreds of ways - large and small. Prosecutors just need to set that out in the indictment, which means expect superseding indictments to be forthcoming in the next few days/weeks.
Indication maybe?
BREAKING: in somewhat of an indication that Judge McAfee will NOT disqualify Willis, he’s refusing to throw out key elements of the RICO charge although he is tossing a few of the later counts against a few of the defendants for lack of specificity (1/x) pic.twitter.com/Vr84iedqOp
— Norm Eisen (norm.eisen on Threads) (@NormEisen) March 13, 2024
re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Landed in Birbville.
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The postwar smothering of fascism didn’t seem to slow conservatives’ lust for right-wing strongmen. By the 1960s, the primary home for such reverence was found not necessarily in Washington but in the pages of National Review, where founder William F. Buckley and his claque of writers apparently never found a hard-right despot they couldn’t support. There was Spain’s Francisco Franco, whom Buckley dubbed an “authentic national hero,” Heilbrunn writes. There was Portugal’s Antonio Salazar, who wrote in the magazine that he was “fighting for Western civilization and Christian values.” There was Chile’s Augusto Pinochet, whom Buckley viewed as a “bona fide leader who knew how to exercise power.” (After Pinochet used a car bomb to assassinate a political opponent in Washington, D.C., Chilean officials turned directly to Buckley for advice on how to “sanitize Pinochet’s reputation,” for which Buckley happily obliged.)
Worth considering whenever that nostalgia for “…when the JBS was kicked out of the RNC convention” arises.
re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea
Worth considering whenever that nostalgia for “…when the JBS was kicked out of the RNC convention” arises.
This:
After Pinochet used a car bomb to assassinate a political opponent in Washington, D.C.
…was my wakeup to the seriousness of it all. RIP Ronnie Moffit.
re: #40 lawhawk
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Ken Buck absolutely immolates Speaker Johnson, and calls out Johnson and GOP leaders for pushing an unconstitutional impeachment of Biden - because they have precisely no evidence of any high crimes or misdemeanors, and are just trying to MBF one into existence to even the playing field with Biden.
So a sane one leaves, who will inevitably be replaced by a MAGAt traitor. If Buck really wanted to help, he would have switched parties instead of retiring.
Mastodon
Beware the cat in sheep’s clothing was my first take.
Another “peace protester” demanding ethnic cleansing of 7 million people.
re: #109 Hecuba’s daughter
So a same one leaves, who will inevitably be replaced by a MAGAt traitor. If Buck really wanted to help, he would have switched parties instead of retiring.
He made it almost impossible for Boebert to run in his district, and froze her out of the special, because she’d have to retire from the 3d to run in the 4th. A GOPer is going to win in the 4th. A Democrat is likely to win in the 3d, so there’s a likely net +1 D thanks to all of this. Buck is gone, and Boebert is likely to be gone.
His claims that he’s retiring to help get better and more qualified people elected to govt doesn’t pass the smell test since he’s been part and parcel of the extremism that has taken over the GOP.
The GOP has gone to lowest common denominator - whoever sucks up to Trump most. Whoever spews the most insane crap gets elevated, and that’s a feature of the GOP unhinged from facts or reality - thanks in no small part to the right wing echo chamber that amplifies all the right wing agitprop.
Joe Z from Wonkette wrote a song about minimum wage workers that needs to be shared!
Joe Z says, “A few years back I wrote a song about this. It was inspired by all the Facebook posts I saw (some from members of my own fucking family) angrily denouncing the idea of a living wage. Here are the lyrics”.
I’m sorry that I flipped your burger
I’m sorry that I scrubbed your john
I didn’t know you’d find it so offensive
That I do honest work all day long
I’m sorry that I’m not a soldier
Or a firefighter or a cop
But if I don’t clean up all this garbage
Then our economy just might stop
Now, let me tell you I do not get paid enough
To hear you tell me I should not get paid enough
I work too long and hard for the peanuts that I earn
Now, let me tell you that I might just turn to drink
‘Cause you never, ever seem to stop and think
I guess you just don’t get paid enough to learn
Now, slinging fast food ain’t prestigious
You never miss a chance to tell me so
But it still takes a lot of elbow grease
To feed a nation on the go
‘Cause you want your fries hot and crispy
And you want them yesterday
But you throw a tantrum like a baby
If I say my work is worth some decent pay
Now, let me tell you I do not get paid enough
To hear you tell me I should not get paid enough
I work too long and hard for the peanuts that I earn
Now, let me tell you that I might just turn to drink
‘Cause you never, ever seem to stop and think
I guess you just don’t get paid enough to learn
re: #103 Dangerman
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And a lot of unqualified federal judges
Of course, Trump didn’t select them. It was McConnell who did that and any Republican President would have made the same appointments. One possible difference — Kennedy may not have resigned under a different President.
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re: #114 Hecuba’s daughter
Of course, Trump didn’t select them. It was McConnell who did that and any Republican President would have made the same appointments. One possible difference — Kennedy may not have resigned under a different President.
I think Kennedy was going to retire if any Republican won in 2016. He served 30 years on the Supreme Court.
What would have been different if Clinton had won is that, yes, she would have been able to appoint Scalia’s replacement (assuming Senate Republicans didn’t decide to do the most ridiculous thing and confirm Garland between election and inauguration days), Breyer and Ginsburg would likely have retired during a Clinton presidency (or any other Democratic presidency) and the balance of the Court would have been about where it was in 2015.
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Aaron Rodgers is in talks with RFK Jr to be his VP candidate. This is not good news for the NY Jets, who were expecting Rodgers to be their starting QB.
If there was yet another reason to despise Aaron Rodgers…..
mom news
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re: #103 Dangerman
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And a lot of unqualified federal judges
But Hillary was a terrible candidate……
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re: #118 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #82 lawhawk
Tik Tok vote in House:
House Approves TikTok Bill, 352-65
The bill would require the video-sharing app TikTok to divest from ByteDance, its China-owned parent company within 180 days of the bill’s enactment or face a U.S. ban.
I really hope the Democrats and White House have a gameplan here. This will be a great way to pissoff the youth vote.
re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea
Remember that right up until the first Gulf War, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was a “force for stability in the region”.
re: #121 Dave In Austin
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I have been voting since 1992. I have lived in and voted in 4 different states over that span. I have always had to show my driver license to vote in person. Where are places in this country where you don’t need to show ID?
re: #115 wrenchwench
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Not birbie, partridge. I can’t count.
A partridge is a birdie. Took me four as well.
re: #125 Dr. Matt
I have been voting since 1992. I have lived in and voted in 4 different states over that span. I have always had to show my driver license to vote in person. Where are places in this country where you don’t need to show ID?
Here in PA you have to show ID the first time you vote in a new precinct. After that I never got asked again until I changed addresses and precinct. I don’t think the rules on that have changed, Philly?
‘Who does that?’ Trump slammed for autographing photo of slain nursing student Laken Riley
Not only does he sign it, look at these fucking monsters smiling ear to ear…..fucking pigs.
re: #127 darthstar
A partridge is a birdie. Took me four as well.
A partridge is a birdie, but it’s not a birbie.
re: #129 Dr. Matt
Not only does he sign it, look at these fucking monsters smiling ear to ear…..fucking pigs.
They need a Willie Horton
re: #128 Eventual Carrion
Here in PA you have to show ID the first time you vote in a new precinct. After that I never got asked again until I changed addresses and precinct. I don’t think the rules on that have changed, Philly?
Same in California, if you vote in person
re: #128 Eventual Carrion
Here in PA you have to show ID the first time you vote in a new precinct. After that I never got asked again until I changed addresses and precinct. I don’t think the rules on that have changed, Philly?
Here in KY, as long as you are identified by the poll workers, it doesn’t matter how. My next door neighbor was our poll worker for the longest time. After she passed away and a new person took over, I showed my Drivers License once and am now recognized by him every time.
re: #132 KGxvi
Same in California, if you vote in person
Yeah, same here in Minnesota. When I last went to vote in person, they asked me who I was and had me confirm my address (because my precinct is technically surrounded by another voting precinct, and there is often much confusion among new voters about who goes to which polling place), then handed me my ballot request ticket and sent me over to get my ballot. No ID required, but they did verify my address of registration and marked that I had requested a ballot.
re: #132 KGxvi
Same in California, if you vote in person
In this part of AL, we have to hand our driver’s license or other approved ID to the nice lady with the reader. She bounces it off the Sec’y of State database. It’s not the obstacle the GOP hopes it is and we can work around it.
re: #122 Dr. Matt
I really hope the Democrats and White House have a gameplan here. This will be a great way to pissoff the youth vote.
There are many annoying parts to this. It feels like an assault on First Amendment rights to speech and association. And the purported reason (that it is own by the Chinese government) is bullshit: The China Internet Investment Fund owns 1% of one subsidiary, which is a Chinese based entity.
If they are really worried about data collection, they’d pass a bill that actually addresses data collection practices for all internet based businesses. But they don’t.
This is one of those times when I really hope cloture kills a bill.
re: #136 KGxvi
There are many annoying parts to this. It feels like an assault on First Amendment rights to speech and association. And the purported reason (that it is own by the Chinese government) is bullshit: The China Internet Investment Fund owns 1% of one subsidiary, which is a Chinese based entity.
If they are really worried about data collection, they’d pass a bill that actually addresses data collection practices for all internet based businesses. But they don’t.
This is one of those times when I really hope cloture kills a bill.
1A lawyers are all screaming about this bill. The fact that Democrats are on board with this is disgraceful. And all because they want to be seen as tough on China, which is idiotic. The Democratic base doesn’t care nearly as much about being tough on China as the Republican base does, and Republicans will never care what a Democrat says or does.
re: #136 KGxvi
There are many annoying parts to this. It feels like an assault on First Amendment rights to speech and association. And the purported reason (that it is own by the Chinese government) is bullshit: The China Internet Investment Fund owns 1% of one subsidiary, which is a Chinese based entity.
If they are really worried about data collection, they’d pass a bill that actually addresses data collection practices for all internet based businesses. But they don’t.
This is one of those times when I really hope cloture kills a bill.
It’s not about data collection. It’s about TikTok being a propaganda outlet, that unlike social media is targeting individuals, with no information from other users to dilute the propaganda.
re: #133 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Here in KY, as long as you are identified by the poll workers, it doesn’t matter how. My next door neighbor was our poll worker for the longest time. After she passed away and a new person took over, I showed my Drivers License once and am now recognized by him every time.
Ask the Constitutional Originalists: how did voters ID themselves in 1788?
re: #138 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
It’s not about data collection. It’s about TikTok being a propaganda outlet, that unlike social media is targeting individuals, with no information from other users to dilute the propaganda.
tell me you’ve never been on tiktok without telling me you’ve never been on tiktok
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ask the Constitutional Originalists: how did voters ID themselves in 1788?
probably via tax rolls… which is a bit difficult today since we have banned poll taxes.
re: #141 KGxvi
probably via tax rolls… which is a bit difficult today since we have banned poll taxes.
You showed up with your Long Rifle and your fellow militiamen identified you. Or you brought a copy of your landholding deed.
re: #121 Dave In Austin
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I don’t recall having to show ID to vote here in NY the last time I went in person, though I did have to sign in - and I flashed my voter card anyway, as that was my first time voting in a new precinct.
I guess this is just the RWNJ media’s standard election-year BS, so that they can flog their inane theory that “Democrats” import enormous numbers of “illegals” and somehow get them registered to vote -for Dems, of course- which can always be used as a handy excuse for Republicans losing races.
re: #144 Jay C
Fucking idiots.
I don’t recall having to show ID to vote here in NY the last time I went in person, though I did have to sign in - and I flashed my voter card anyway, as that was my first time voting in a new precinct.
I guess this is just the RWNJ media’s standard election-year BS, so that they can flog their inane theory that “Democrats” import enormous numbers of “illegals” and somehow get them registered to vote -for Dems, of course- which can always be used as a handy excuse for Republicans losing races.
“Which states, Rep. Guy?”
I went to a Moms Demand Action meeting last night. Last meeting, I joined the Elections Team, and in the intervening month, I failed the bureaucracy of becoming a member of the team, so I told my team leader that I was her first dropout. She asked if I was still willing to go door to door for select candidates, and when I said yes, she said I’m still on the team. So this morning, I got an email from the national organization, saying they noticed I hadn’t done the next step to getting in, so I clicked on the thing that got me in, did the requisite p/w change, and then everything I clicked on opened a new tab. I persisted anyway, and finally signed up for the first ‘onboarding’ zoom meeting thing. In two weeks. I hate zoom meetings. that was one of the several reasons for my dropping out. This shit is hard.
re: #129 Dr. Matt
‘Who does that?’ Trump slammed for autographing photo of slain nursing student Laken Riley
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Not only does he sign it, look at these fucking monsters smiling ear to ear…..fucking pigs.
And he couldn’t even get her name right…
re: #146 wrenchwench
Sounds like a hard way to help a candidate. Are there no simpler, direct campaign organizations available? After all the shit has settled, I’m going to write up a manifesto on Volunteer Abuse.
re: #148 Decatur Deb
Sounds like a hard way to help a candidate. Are there no simpler, direct campaign organizations available? After all the shit has settled, I’m going to write up a manifesto on Volunteer Abuse.
Probably designed to keep Republicans from secretly infiltrating.
re: #122 Dr. Matt
I really hope the Democrats and White House have a gameplan here. This will be a great way to pissoff the youth vote.
Yeah, this seems like a really bad time to go after TikTok.
I mean, I get the security angle but I doubt waiting until February 2025 to regulate it / ban it etc. would be a big deal.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, this seems like a really bad time to go after TikTok.
Elon Musk could buy it out!!!
re: #149 Belafon
Probably designed to keep Republicans from secretly infiltrating.
Just ask them their pronouns.
re: #148 Decatur Deb
Sounds like a hard way to help a candidate. Are there no simpler, direct campaign organizations available? After all the shit has settled, I’m going to write up a manifesto on Volunteer Abuse.
It’s to build the organization. The local team sends questionnaires to candidates, the national decides who is eligible for what support, the door-to-door is selected by the eligible candidates. I still don’t know anybody here, but my state rep is running for atty. general, and already has approval for whatever he wants, so I got enough to keep me busy. Freelancing is also encouraged, but I plan to maintain employment for a couple more years.
I did feel supported when the team leader’s mother said she was having trouble doing the same thing. She’s a lawyer. Commiseration is not support, but it feels as good.
re: #147 Teukka
And he couldn’t even get her name right…
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Ugh. I didn’t even notice that part. “I love you”. FFS. How embarrassing and pathetic.
re: #149 Belafon
Probably designed to keep Republicans from secretly infiltrating.
We’re non-partisan, but security is tight and Republicans are rare.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, this seems like a really bad time to go after TikTok.
I mean, I get the security angle but I doubt waiting until February 2025 to regulate it / ban it etc. would be a big deal.
Just be aware that “Tik Tok Peril” campaign has been around a while, and there are some shady sorts involved in the past, so I wouldn’t be surprised…
Techdirt on the groups behind the original moral panic campaign:
techdirt.com
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ask the Constitutional Originalists: how did voters ID themselves in 1788?
Well, a lot of times they didn’t: in farm villages and small towns, it was probably easier: most people knew each other, and the qualified voters (adult male residents) would likely have been a relatively small and moderately familiar group.
But in larger towns and cities, the problems of properly identifying eligible voters persisted for a long time.
Supposedly (according to one moderately credible theory), the most prominent victim of electoral fraud was Edgar Allan Poe: some believe he was shanghaied by lowlife “vote-harvesters” who would drag men off the streets to vote at city precincts, then give them a change of clothes, and take them back to vote again: their participation being paid for by drink or drugs: old Edgar wasn’t in great shape by that point in his life anyway, and it’s thought possible that last drink (or hit of chloral) tipped him over the edge.
re: #153 Decatur Deb
Just ask them their pronouns.
A DEI statement opens each meeting. Still a bunch of old white women, but a joint effort with the NAACP is in the works.
re: #156 wrenchwench
We’re non-partisan, but security is tight and Republicans are rare.
So is our regional League of Women Voters. We had a Republican. (And we don’t require zoom meetings.)
re: #161 Shropshire Slasher
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Deep thought, or lack of sleep? /
I like it. Great premise for an anthology series. 👍🏼
re: #156 wrenchwench
We’re non-partisan, but security is tight and Republicans are rare.
I should be more general and say its designed to keep those who would love to mess up the way the group works, especially trying to get people to vote.
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
I like it. Great premise for an anthology series. 👍🏼
Or a short before the main Pixar movie.
re: #161 Shropshire Slasher
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There is art in there somewhere. I see these pole with a hundred nails and screws and think all the messages this pole held in its life.
Deep thought, or lack of sleep? /
Only about 3/8 of an inch deep, but I’ve had the same thought. I only removed Lost Pet Posters after they’d been up a few weeks or more.
re: #164 Belafon
I should be more general and say its designed to keep those who would love to mess up the way the group works, especially trying to get people to vote.
Security is tight because they’ve had experiences. It’s a touchy issue, as you know.
re: #161 Shropshire Slasher
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Deep thought, or lack of sleep? /
“Lost Pet Sorrows and Garage Sales of Saturdays”
My surprised face, etc. etc. etc.
An hour long @AJEnglish investigation has found that many claims made by Israel & its allies in the aftermath of the October 7th attack (and then amplified by politicians & media in the west) were false or misleading. The program is released later today. pic.twitter.com/xVuQ07rYEG
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) March 11, 2024
Some don’t seem to have realized their likes are public.
re: #155 Dr. Matt
Ugh. I didn’t even notice that part. “I love you”. FFS. How embarrassing and pathetic.
Just when you thought he couldn’t possibly sink lower…
He goes and does just that with ease…
I worked on the Green Island Bridge last night trying to troubleshoot the lifting operation prior to the boating season. Have some photos.
re: #147 Teukka
Wonder what the mom has to say about Trump getting her name wrong too.
re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One the one hand, we have the Sporting Ideal, which is deeply rooted in what we perceive as American Values: team spirit, fair play, competition and striving for excellence, etc.
Then we have professional sports, which is a multi-billion dollar industry with an image to maintain, part of whose appeal rests on those American Values.
The money will always be the overriding factor in what they will acccept and/or promote.
Fair play? I think there’s some deflated footballs out there we need to talk about.
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